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Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and…
Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and evils of them : with cautions that we may not be hurt by them, and endeavours to heal them / by Jeremiah Burroughs.Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and evils of them : with cautions that we may not be hurt by them, and endeavours to heal them / by Jeremiah Burroughes.
London: printed for Robert Dawlman, 1653
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The ninth Dividing Principle. Rules of prudence are sufficient to guide us in natural things and civill affairs, and may as well suffice us in spiritual and Church-affairs.
The ninth Dividing Principle. Rules of prudence are sufficient to guide us in naturall things and civill affaires, and may as well suffice us in spirituall and Church-affaires.
A Great part of our divisions about Church-affairs comes from this Principle: If God would help us with right apprehensions about t•is, our divisions would in a great measure vanish. Those whose consciences are taken with a contrary principle, namely, that there must be institutions for all things that are properly Ecclesiastical and spiritual, they cannot yield to any such thing, till they see the stamp on, an institution upon it: Others who think because Prudence is enough to order civill affairs, there needs no institution for these things, they think such as stand for them to be too rigid and stiff in their way.
A Great part of our divisions about Church-affairs comes from this Principle: If God would help us with right apprehensions about t•is, our divisions would in a great measure vanish. Those whose consciences are taken with a contrary principle, namely, that there must be institutions for all things that are properly Ecclesiasticall and spirituall, they cannot yeeld to any such thing, till they see the stamp on, an institution upon it: Others who think because Prudence is enough to order civill affairs, there needs no institution for these things, they think such as stand for them to be too rigid and stiffe in their way.